EAPP(SPITZER)PRE-TEST-Q1-M1

It represents the language of school which includes the language in textbooks, in classrooms, in tests, and in each subject discipline.

• Academic language

• Academic writing

• Social Language

• Both A and B

This feature suggests that written text is lexically dense compared to spoken language since it has more lexical words than grammatical words.

• Complex

• Concise

• Objective

• None of them

A feature of academic language which suggests that a writer is concerned about facts and is not influenced by personal feelings or biases.

• Complex

• Concise

• Objective

• Both A and B

A feature of academic language which excludes jargon, slang, and abbreviations.

• Concise

• Formal

• Objective

• None of them

This feature of academic language argues that each discipline uses its own discipline-specific variations of academic language and that the language should have clues to the context meaning.

• Complex

• Concise

• Specific

• Both A and B

This piece of research is an example of academic writing which is done by the students, either individual or group work.

• Dissertation/ Thesis

• Essay

• Paper

• None of them

This description of data is an example of academic writing which is done by the students from the survey conducted.

• Paper

• Project

• Report

• Both A and B

This is an example of academic writing which is written with a minimum of 20,000 words by the students.

• Dissertation/ Thesis

• Essay

• Paper

• None of them

What is the difference between social language and academic language in terms of the sentence structure, specifically in their beginning sentences?

• In social language, sentences start with transition words like “and” and “but” while sentences for academic language start with “however”, “moreover”, and “in addition”.

• In social language, sentences start with “however”, “moreover”, and “in addition” while sentences for academic language start with transition words like “and” and “but”.

• In social language, sentences start with lower case letters while sentences for academic language start with upper case letters.

• Both A and C

What is the difference between social language and academic language in terms of the words used?

• Social language has repeated words while academic language has variety of words with more sophisticated vocabulary.

• Social language use slang while academic language does not.

• Both A and B

• None of the above